Jay Kramer – Chair of Hastings & Rye Labour Party and Tressell’s former Labour councillor from 1998-2014, who became Deputy Leader of Hastings Borough Council before standing down, says why she rejects austerity.

All speakers reply to audience questions on local government, privatisation and the NHS, job cuts in the public sector, and Hastings Labour Council’s strict policy of enforcing the compulsory purchase of empty properties as a means of tackling homelessness.

Final comments from all speakers covering low wages in the voluntary sector, housing policy, support for free education, environment, trades union leaders, Left Platform, the Green Party, equality and social justice for all.